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Went to the Junior Cup 1/4 final yesterday Dalry Thistle v. Kirkintilloch (don't ask) and even in the Juniors baith teams come oot the gither like the 'guins at Embra Zoo. Goat me thinking...ah much preferred it when the teams came oot on their ain. Booing wae our hearts content when the other team ran oot at Fir Park then raising the terracing roof when the Well came oot. Something majical seeing Joe Wark leading the troops oot wae his familiar gait. Ah want teams coming oot withoot shaking hauns wae all in sundry and let's have goalies swinging on the crossbar again. Whit's Shuggie Sproat daeing nooadays anyway?

Dirty cheat Dickwullie will be lucky tae get a gemme fur the Bar-L's team when he gets there

Attendance 3613

And most important of all, this had better not mean the end of Radio Scotland's Off The Ball's send-up of him, always beginning with the imortal line "Hi de hi campers....."

John Boyle's backing of Motherwell has probably cost him in monetary terms a kick in the arse off of £15M. Without him the club could well have folded (yes the risk/reward/result of 98-01 didn't work out the way we would all have liked) but, like Chapman and McLean before him, I will not hear a bad word against him. Lang may yer lum reek sir!!

Mind gon doon the bing near the perimiter wall looking for the "toilet", asked an old jaicky "whaurs the bog mate?" "whit'd ye hink that wa's there fur son?" says he. Pishing against the wa' somehow seemed quite natural efter that!

...seeing a guy walking past on the track escorted by 2 of Strathclyde Polis' finest...wae a dart sticking oot his heid and me thinking "hmmm ye don't see THAT every day"

What happened to the Popular Front? Erm....he'll be in the East Stand the night

Should be on Radio Scotland for UK listeners http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/s...rem/7189386.stm

Was a midweek game canny member if it was a replay. Did we not hit post an aw when we wur 3-1 up? Took plenty pelters the next day at school.

Here ye go http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/s...rem/6359481.stm

Has gone up there for same money but County offered him a longer deal. Can't fault him for taking it.

Radio Scotland's Jim Spence just reported it's Ross County.

In Gannon We Trust(ed). Errr, forgot wur all athiests noo. I'll get ma coat

Might be wrong but either the morra or Tuesday afternoon

No we don't!!!! Beating Dundee 4-0 in the Scottish Cup is a tradition don't you know

BO-YAAAAAAA 3-0. The Jen-meister

Natives not happy cos they hink they're getting nothing from the ref. Ho-hum, let's hope their frustration transfers to their players.

Fexx sake, how did Douglas keep that out? Point blank save from Sutton.

Give him time, only 20 mins played Craggs' middle name surely has to be SCLAFF

SPL vote cancelled. Nothing whatsover to do with that the realisation that the 10-10 set-up did not have the requsite 11 votes to pass http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/s...rem/9351767.stm by Jim Spence The Scottish Premier League has scrapped plans for a vote to introduce a top division of 10 teams. At a meeting on 17 January it was intended to push the plans through but they have been put on hold. Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson, a critic of the scheme, met SPL bosses Neil Doncaster and Ralph Topping at Gleneagles on Saturday. All 12 clubs were due to vote on the idea at the meeting but no formal resolution has been agreed. The SPL's chief executive Doncaster and its chairman Topping had hoped that the clubs would vote in favour of the changes which would be introduced the season after next. But for a vote to happen a formal resolution needs to be put to clubs 14 days before the meeting and that has not happened. One SPL chairman told BBC Scotland: "There has been no resolution so there is nothing to vote on." With four clubs - Dundee United, Hearts, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Kilmarnock - against the changes and St Mirren also saying they preferred a 14-team top league, the proposals for two leagues of 10 now appear to be on hold. The meeting itself will still go ahead on 17 January - but without the vote.

Aye he did jist say that, thought ah'd missed a goal

BBC Alba showing delayed transmission at 5.30pm

From BBC: Motherwell are expected to confirm by Thursday that ex-Scotland midfielder Stuart McCall is their new manager. The Fir Park club met McCall again on Wednesday after the 46-year-old former Bradford manager impressed the board in his initial interview. There were talks with other candidates, but McCall is seen as the man to succeed Craig Brown, now at Aberdeen. Well had interviewed former Oldham boss Dave Penney, while Neil McDonald and Ricky Sbragia withdrew their interest. BBC Scotland has learned that Wednesday's follow-up talks went well and the club are expected to announce McCall's appointment in the next 24 hours. McCall won 40 caps for Scotland and was a key player at Ibrox in the 1990s during Walter Smith's first stint as Rangers manager. Prior to that, he had made his name as a combative midfielder at Bradford, to whom he returned after Ibrox, and Everton. He finished his lengthy playing career at Sheffield United in 2004/05 and became manager at Valley Parade in May 2007. The Leeds-born boss threatened to leave at the end of the following season when Bradford failed to make the play-offs, then quit in February of this year after a run of poor results. Penney, 46, had emerged as a possible candidate for the Fir Park vacancy and had been interviewed, his experience in England's lower leagues appealing to the Motherwell board. Former Blackburn Rovers assistant McDonald pulled out of the running after deciding the job was not for him. That followed a similar decision by Sunderland chief scout Sbragia. I'm like General Montgomery going down to see the troops every morning, I give them a battle plan and the casualty list Motherwell interim manager Gordon YoungInterim manager Gordon Young will now be in charge for a third game, Wednesday's visit to Celtic Park. "I've always adopted the attitude that I would keep the place on a steady footing and organise so that when a new manager came in, whether it be a day or a month, there would be no way he wouldn't hit the ground running," said youth coach Young. "I have planned for the game, I have planned for Hamilton and, believe it or not, I have planned for Dundee the week after. "I'm like General Montgomery going down to see the troops every morning, I give them a battle plan and the casualty list. It is becoming a bit of a laugh in the dressing-room." McDonald became the latest to fall by the wayside despite holding negotiations in Scotland and watching Motherwell's 4-1 defeat by Rangers on Boxing Day. The 45-year-old, who was surprisingly sacked along with Sam Allardyce at Ewood Park this month, returned to his Preston home to think over the post but decided against progressing with negotiations. He fulfilled the criteria laid out by Motherwell vice-chairman Derek Weir as he told BBC Scotland on Sunday they were down to "two, maybe three" candidates for their managerial vacancy following more than 40 applications. "There are three things we are looking for," revealed Weir. "We want someone who is well known in the lower leagues of England, because that has worked well for us in the past in terms of finding players we can afford. "People who have a network in terms of bringing in loan signings, which again has worked well for us. "And then people with experience, either in the Scottish or English game. "There are a lot of people out there who have all of that. Now we have to narrow it down." That appeared to rule out the likes of former Hibernian manager John Hughes, ex-St Mirren boss Gus MacPherson and former Aberdeen and Kilmarnock boss Jimmy Calderwood. Lennoxtown-born Sbragia is understood to have been high on their wanted list having been Sunderland caretaker in December 2008 after the departure of Roy Keane and leading the side to safety from relegation on the last day of the season before resigning. Ex-Lincoln boss and former Celtic striker Chris Sutton was thought to be in the running and also fitted the bill set out by Weir. Sources close to former Celtic striker John Hartson, who had been in the running for the Wales job before the appointment of Gary Speed, had suggested last week that he was expecting to hear from the SPL club.

Great line, reminds me of the film 'I'm not Rappaport' starring Walter Matthau.